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January 12, 2006
Dissent and the Regime
After a short stretch in which he actually conceded mistakes or the first time and sinking poll numbers forced him to say publicly that disagreeing with him wasn't unpatriotic, the dictator in the White House is back to his real self. Apparently buoyed by a stabillization in the polls, General Bush (yeah, to get a rank you actually have to have served in the military instead of going AWOL and lying about it, but since he and his administration behave like a third world banana republic tin can military junta, we might as well give him the honorific) this week accused anyone who disagrees with him of giving "comfort to our adversaries."
While it's obvious that Bush and the dwindling number of Republicans who still support his regime would far prefer an unthinking, unquestioning, cattle-like America of zombie drones -- or would simply love to amend the Constituion to make dissent illegal -- unfortunately the whole "the only way to be patriotic is to agree 100% with Bush" BS has finally begun to wear thin on the American people, and it impacted his poll numbers recently. (Well, that and lying about the war, bungling the response to Katrina, and allowing his oil cronies to jack gasoline above $3.00 per gallon.) I doubt it'll work this time.
As for giving comfort to adversaries, I am proud to call myself an adversary of George Bush, and yeah -- every time an American citizen actually thinks or dares to ask questions of this regime, it absolutely brings me comfort.
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Comments
I really appreciate your column. In a country so great as ours, why must we continue on with a law-breaker/fear-monger like Bush? And what bothers me more is the fact that so many in our country have succumbed to the Republicans' mass brain-washing program. Yikes. I weep for the future.
Posted by: Dan Haglund at January 13, 2006 12:52 PM
Dan - thank you for reading and for the kind appreciation.
I don't know why, but something inside always makes me want to believe -- against all reason or evidence -- that the American people will eventually wake up from this nightmare and throw the bastards out. The conservatives' version of the future is horrifying indeed... I just still hold out hope that we can defeat it.
And you're right about one other thing... this great country of ours. Despite our flaws and faults, and despite currently being led by a war criminal who should be prosecuted for his crimes against the Constitution, the United States is still a great country, and a place we can all be proud of. We just have to do a bit better with that totalitarian problem we seem to have...
Again, thanks for reading. Much appreciated.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 13, 2006 01:29 PM
